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"He smothers her": plate 13 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)

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"He smothers her": plate 13 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)

Théodore Chassériau|William Shakespeare

Date
etched 1844, reprinted 1900
Medium
Etching and engraving on chine collé; second edition (Gazette des Beaux-Arts)
Dimensions
plate: 13 11/16 x 9 3/4 in. (34.7 x 24.8 cm) image: 9 13/16 x 8 15/16 in. (25 x 22.7 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
32.7.13
Credit line
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

French, Le Limon, Saint-Domingue, West Indies 1819–1856 Paris|British, Stratford-upon-Avon 1564–1616 Stratford-upon-Avon

Subjects and terms

  • Bedrooms
  • Men
  • Women
  • Shakespeare

The Met object ID 371339. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.